On Saturday afternoon, I took the kids to the Pacific Pinball Exposition in San Rafael for a few hours of pinball madness. It was incredible. If you are local ~ I strongly urge you to get over there NOW! I am still hungering for more pinball action after the meager 2 hour session yesterday. They have 250 machines set on free play, it is a thing of unsurpassed excellence on Earth. I could go on, but I will get to the point. Classic pinball rules! It's strange for me to say this, since my favorite games have always been part of the last generation of pinball ~ games like Attack from Mars, Funhouse, Twilight Zone, Medieval Madness, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and The Simpsons. But since most of those games were swarmed with people, I stayed away from the crowds and tried my hand at the classic pinball machines from the 60s. They had some incredible machines there, which were painstakingly restored to pristine condition. One game that I absolutely fell in love with was Buckaroo.
Buckaroo features a horse kicking a cowboy in the butt on the back box when you hit certain shots, which you think would get old, but no ~ it's funny every single time! This game is a lot of fun, and has this cool twin Roto spinner in the middle which you need to hit in the middle to spin and then hit the numbers 1-7 on the sides. I could go for days about how incredible this game is but I think I'll just head back there tonight and play for four or five hours! Pinball is mighty, let its luminescent radiance wash over you and its electro-mechanical charms seduce your soul, you might even achieve enlightenment this way, who can say for certain? Well, that's my plan at any rate.
Here are my photos from the Pacific Pinball Expo >>
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